Day two beckons
It’s day two of the March meeting and after cutting my teeth yesterday on some lighter material it’s time to get stuck into some serious physics. The first thing on the agenda is graphene....
Rocky Mountain physics
I arrived in Denver on Saturday and had a fantastic Sunday touring the mountains with an old physicist friend of mine who lives just outside of the city. While most of our tour involved taking in the ...
The best of 2006
Monthly highlights from the year in physics
In search of fun
Looking for laughs in physics
Review of the year
PhysicsWeb looks back at 2005
DVDs in the spotlight
A good example of physics in action
A fresh look at hand-held communication devices
Could wearing glasses dramatically change how much radiation the human head absorbs from hand-held mobile devices?
Doughnuts reveal life’s secrets
Even the great Isaac Newton – taking a break from celestial matters by sipping a cup of coffee under his favourite apple tree – might have been stymied by one mundane question. How, he may...
Read article: Who said that?
Who said that?
Why physicists love quotations
Read article: It Must Be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science, Graham Farmelo (ed)
It Must Be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science, Graham Farmelo (ed)
What were the most important equations of 20th-century science? Here are 11 essays, aimed at non-specialists, each centred on a different equation. The authors are distinguished in their various field...
